The archived blog of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO).

Mar 04, 2009

President Obama Wants to Fix the Broken Contracting System

Today, President Obama announced that he wants new rules to reform the federal contracting system and cut as much as $40 billion in federal spending. Citing procurement overruns, fraud, sole source contracts, a lack of transparency and accountability, and outsourcing concerns, the President hopes to change the old ways of doing business in Washington. His policy shift will hopefully save money and improve government services. This effort makes good on a campaign promise to save billions of dollars.

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One good start is to put bunnitine greenhouse back in her old job as head of reviewing govt contractors she id the one that spoke out about the no bid contracts cheney relied on to put hallibuton,custer battles, blackwater,ect ect in iraq ,afganistan ,new orleans ect ect and she got demoted for speaking out and he should go forth with a forceful athourity to to get back the 10's billions of dollars that were either tru terrible mismanagement or out rite theft and fraud and companies that may have caused harm to not only our military but civilians call them on the carpet fine them to oblivion and send the guys in charge to prison then and only then will you see reform take place cause if contrators see there are sever penalties for such abuses they might think twice before commiting them